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... marketing. The cat brain neurocomputer was a scam: http://news.discovery.com/tech... http://www.wired.com/2009/11/d... http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-... Henry Markram said "I thought that having gone through Blue Brain so carefully, journalists would be able to recognize that what IBM reported is a scam - no where near a cat-scale brain simulation, but somehow they are totally deceived by these incredible statements. I am absolutely shocked at this announcement. Not because it is any kind of technical feat, but because of the mass deception of the public."

btw a few days ago China had some VIPs and wanted to great them with clear blue skies. So they shut down the factories for a couple of days. Sure enough, beautiful skies. They can stop it when they want to.

Really? Because a whole bunch of other people did dendochronotic analysis of over 150,000 trees across the whole of the northern hemisphere, correlated that with ice cores, tundra boreholes, fossil lake shorelines and loesses across the whole world and found no such thing.

Interestingly, they did find evidence of an incredibly intense solar flare around 774 AD that correlated with an astronomical event recorded in the AngloSaxon Chronicle and a massive volcanic eruption in 1783 AD that caused killing fogs of sulphurous acid across Europe and North America, but, well, that's science for you.

Here's another example, if you can do this to ATM machines, there's probably not any class of device that's safe.

The only ones actually selling and using I've seen are selling "private cloud" services and calling them "public cloud"

That's their marketing pitch, right?

Because IoT devices are built primarily with "getting to market" in mind, they don't focus on security much (that's honestly not different than a lot of software). A lot of devices have UPnP wide open. Some devices set themselves up as wireless access points, complete with telnet and ftp open, as in "full root access." Some cars are able to be controlled wirelessly. Controlling the entertainment system can be really bad, but they were also able to control the brakes.

As for something like parking meters.....presumably they are all wired to a central server on their own private wires? But physical access is root, so they're probably attackable, too.

Left wing like this?

Matt ridley

Tossing in SJW stuff doesn't make them left-wing. All you have to do is look at how many gay/trans/female rich types there are in Silicon valley to know the media is a) Protecting their friends and b) Trying to increase the supply of labour thus decreasing wages.

Which fits perfectly well with a Libertarian ideology. Is like the old joke about what do you call a gay Republican that smokes weed? A libertarian.

However, should Wired have a conversion to full-on socialism and demand tech nerds pay high taxes to fund lovely stuff like schools and infrastructure then please let me know and I might buy a copy.

With the exception of a few horrendous examples of gay people fearing for their lives, I'm not aware of danger of PHYSICAL attack as a result of this fiasco.

The AM hack exposed the personal information of 32 million subscribers, about 3.2 million of who are women. It is a statistical certainty that at least thousands of these people have been subject to abuse, and as much so that some of them will experience more abuse because of the hack. Take these statistics and multiply them by 3.2 million.

Furthermore, Wired reports that a PI firm has created a site which permits anyone to search the AM data easily, without having to know how leaked data dumps are usually shared.

And if you were in the slightest hearing me as suggesting that would be good thing, then I've got it badly wrong.

I appreciate your straightforwardness, and lack of hostility. Looking back in the thread I see something like "AM hack response == puritan lynch mob" >> "It's OK for us to challenge people [like this]." Though not written explicitly, the [like this] seemed like a clear implication, which is why I did hear it as a suggestion the hack/doxxing is acceptable.

But suppose this hack had been of the identities of people watching child pornography?

Having reviewed the AM user statistics linked above, it's pretty clear the vast majority of users were never able to realize an affair, or even to communicate with a potential partner. 90% of the users are men, suggesting 81% are heterosexual men and 9% are heterosexual women (~10% of people are gay). That gives a 9:1 ratio. In light of that, the analogy ought to be "people who registered potential intent to consider watching child pornography." Creating an Ashley Madison account is apparently tantamount only to admitting the potential intent to consider an affair, which (most likely) never occurred.

Nevertheless, assuming the direct analogy is valid, the result of such a leak would be to make criminal convictions for those people extremely difficult to obtain. The mob cannot deliver justice - no matter the crime - because mob justice is arbitrary and irrevocably severe. Thus, I say that the extralegal doxxing of child porn watchers is also likely to result in a worse overall outcome than allowing the legal system to proceed by its usual means.

And yet, it is arguable, that a WATCHER of child porn is less destructive to real children - especially if that porn is CGI generated - than an adulterer who destroys a family.

Maybe so (if and only if your 'especially' become 'only'), but then again you've intentionally chosen to compare the least and most extreme cases of child porn and adultery, respectively.

The fact is, a large plurality of men and women do commit adultery. A large plurality of marriages also end in divorce, which is almost always quite traumatic for children. Sexual frustrations are often cited as contributing to both adultery and divorce. A more sexually flexible society would probably exhibit greater family stability when compared to our rigid one.

Overt racism will probably get you booted out of most circles...to dismiss my treatment of an adulterer as the behaviour of a lynch mob but condone similar treatment for an overt racist shows a failure to think.

You now say you're treatment of an adulterer is considerably more mild than the remedy forced upon us by the AM hackers, in which case your point is somewhat valid. I say 'somewhat' because the scourge of racism, which is mathematically guaranteed to result in inferior group performance*, has been enorm

Q: A couple of years ago you made some comments about privacy -- and the lack thereof -- that were widely printed. That was amazingly pre-Patriot Act and pre-9/11. Do you stick by that notion? Should we not be worried about having lost all our privacy?

A: I never said that, did I?

Q: You said, "You already have no privacy."

A: I said, "You have no privacy. Get over it."

While in fact on monday night 25th of january 1999 a group of reporters and analysts recorded Scott McNealy saying "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

@MacTO: "Though it's probably not in the way that you intended, you do have a valid point"

Seriously, a lot of commercial projects borrow heavily from Open Source and do get some lowly paid interns to write it. There's a least one HFT platform that owes a lot to Open Source. I know of at least one coder at the LSE who designed a 'Candlestick chart' application - using Ellipse.

The very old systems? They had a drop to older phone network standards and users would just see it as part of their local rust belt cell networks.
Such changes in networking conditions could be mapped.
Phone Firewall Identifies Rogue Cell Towers Trying To Intercept Your Calls (09.03.14)
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/c...
Upgrades and updates ensure all tracking is now more seamless in any area less of the drop down to another generation of network service. Voice, mapping, rewind packages work "as" any domestic cell infrastructure for a low cost per city, state.
The next gen is as sold as good as is used to track foreigners in their own nations and stay ahead of very low end diplomatic counter surveillance efforts.

Normally there are two _separate_ CAN busses, one which handles all the critical crap, and one which handles the infotainment and comfort stuff. There's a module which connects the two, providing read-only queries from the second to the first. None of the hacks breached this system.

Oh really? Then how did that Jeep Cherokee hack via the infotainment system work?

from http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h... (emphasis mine)

As the two hackers remotely toyed with the air-conditioning, radio, and windshield wipers, I mentally congratulated myself on my courage under pressure. That's when they cut the transmission.

Immediately my accelerator stopped working. As I frantically pressed the pedal and watched the RPMs climb, the Jeep lost half its speed, then slowed to a crawl. This occurred just as I reached a long overpass, with no shoulder to offer an escape. The experiment had ceased to be fun.

This article is good about Star Wars continuity... http://archive.wired.com/enter...

This why the Internet Of Things people keep talking about is going to be so awesome ! ;-)

Lot's of products are failing and it's going to get a whole lot worse soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cars are my 'favorite' topic right now:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/g...
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
etc.

They were already warned about the problems in 2011, there was a talk at Usenix conference about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They did say: business models are a problem.

So maybe that's the cause.

This why the Internet Of Things people keep talking about is going to be so awesome ! ;-)

Lot's of products are failing and it's going to get a whole lot worse soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cars are my 'favorite' topic right now:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/g...
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/h...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
etc.

They were already warned about the problems in 2011, there was a talk at Usenix conference about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They did say: business models are a problem.

So maybe that's the cause.

You haven't made any fundamental points. You've only made flimsy claims which you yourself acknowledge you can't support. Maybe follow YouTube's example. They're doing well with HTML5 and even WebM video. So is Wired. So is Yahoo. So are plenty of other people.

Then you may not want to read this article on Wired, "10 Guns, Bombs, and Weapons You Can Build at the Airport": http://www.wired.com/2013/12/t...
Let alone the myriad of books that have been published on exactly the topic you describe, and loads and loads of "fiction" in movies, tv, books, etc following the same. You must really hate Dexter.

"The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was"

I bought this issue in July 1997, I guess? Put Slackware from a magazine on 26 floppies or similar that month, found the command-line too difficult, bought Red Hat Linux 5.1 or 5.2 a couple of months after that about the same time I discovered Slashdot. Been a member ever since.

München is planning exactly this, a citywide network of elevated cycle freeways:
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/m...

Seconds, since all you need to to to infect a TB-Ethernet adapter is plug it in to something.

Any thunderbolt device with an Option ROM can be infected in seconds. citation

So you're postulating that, while someone is present, another person can:

1. Pull out their Ethernet dongle (which presumably has a network cable attached)

2. Fumble-fuck around, trying to surreptitiously Stick the victim's dongle into a waiting infection-donor (which would likely have to be another laptop, probably a Mac)

3. Wait (n) seconds for the dongle to enumerate and get the infection uploaded

4. Pull it back out of the "donor" computer

5. Fumble-fuck around trying to surreptiously plug it back into the victim's laptop (and possibly reconnecting the network cable)...

ALL in a FEW SECONDS, and WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT!?!?!???

Maybe The Flash (no pun) could do it; but for us non -superhumans...

Seconds, since all you need to to to infect a TB-Ethernet adapter is plug it in to something.

Any thunderbolt device with an Option ROM can be infected in seconds.
citation

Although fake kiddie porn is just as illegal as the real thing,

Child pornography laws in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Legal status of cartoon pornography depicting minors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

However, in the 2008 Christopher Handley case, a judge overturned parts of the PROTECT Act as unconstitutional while charging Handley with a lesser obscenity charge.

Currently, such depictions are in a legal grey area due to parts of the PROTECT Act being ruled unconstitutional on a federal level; however, laws regulating lolicon and shotacon differs between states; several states have laws that explicitly prohibit cartoon pornography and similar depictions (such as video games in the state of New Jersey), while others usually have only vague laws on such content; in some states, such as California, such depictions specifically do not fall under state child pornography laws,[58] while the state of Utah explicitly bans it.[59]

Due to the fact that the definition of obscenity differs between states, the legality of lolicon and shotacon depends on the community; in several states, there are clauses that state that for something to be deemed obscene, real harm must be done or the child depicted must be someone that exists in real life, while other areas may specifically allow unrealistic "cartoon" depictions but prohibit more "life-like" depictions. Some states may have heavy penalties on such material but only ban depictions of minors under 16 years of age (Arizona and New Jersey), while others may decide to ban it altogether.

Iowa Collector Charged for Allegedly Obscene Manga (Update 2) - News - Anime News Network
I was going to blockquote some stuff, but just read the above. It's short enough.
Appeals Court Backs Prison for E-Mail Obscenity | WIRED

Whorley was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, in part for possessing genuine child pornography. But the Justice Department — perhaps sensing a chance to smuggle bad law onto the back of an unsympathetic defendant — also charged Whorley for having unsavory manga under the recently-enacted Protect Act, which outlaws obscene cartoons depicting minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

More surprisingly, prosecutors charged him under an older statute outlawing the possession of “any obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print or other matter of indecent character” as defined by a jury. That violation was for writing out his sexual fantasies involving children, and e-mailing them to like-minded internet friends. Though Whorely is apparently a pedophile, the law applies to any obscene content.

In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans have the right to possess obscene material in the privacy of their own homes. But trafficking in such goods through interstate commerce — which today includes the internet — is illegal under that ruling.

Notice the ones which mention a plea bargain.
PROTECT Act of 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first conviction of a person found to have violated th

we'll pay our fair share. Don't bikes cause something like 1/10.000 of the damage to a road that a car does? looks like it's the cars that are subsidised anyway according to: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/9...

Yes, and companies have already found away around the GMO labeling by using genetic information and cross-breeding (story here).

Bing never scraped Google for results.

Yes they did. They pretty much admitted they were doing it.

Looks like it's going to be monthly for Android
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/g...

Italy did it years ago with the "In Italy, CIA Agents Are Undone by Their Cell Phones" ( 06.26.07) in open court with cell logs.
http://archive.wired.com/polit...
"When an Italian prosecutor pulled the records of phones in the area at the time, the plot became apparent. He was able to identify the agents (by alias), where they had stayed, and even calls they made ..."

Re:these other countries?
The US and UK "are" the networks in other nations. The crypto standards for interconnects, telco equipment, low peering costs and distant pipes.
When a few nations have methods like Quantum Insert http://www.wired.com/2015/04/r... no traditional ip trail exists
Some data about ip, time zone, data storage is found, its probably not the nation of origin anymore with todays more creative data moving methods.

As for some "sophisticated cyber intrusion" been able to "rapidly [gather] massive amounts of data" over gov and mil networks without been noticed and ending up "distributed" over the internet?
The US and UK use all mil/gov internet systems open to the internet as pure honeypots.
Disinformation left to be found is created with a trackable "stain" on all network facing systems.
Thats the magic. The trick is letting the people who moved the "data" think its real, their access was productive and lasted a long time.
Russia has placed enough staff within the US and UK military industrial complex over many decades to just stay in place and knows to avoid any such issues.
Tests are often run on new US mil staff, low level staff and new contractors by other more skilled US clandestine services to see how fast they respond, who responds and if faked social media information used by NGO's, front companies, faith groups and charities is still safe globally.
An internal test of an "unclassified" system, "massive amounts" of data been allowed to move over time and "social media" could have been leaked by other staff, contractors to the press as the work of another nation.
To any outsiders watching the data moving out, logs would reads as real but be a US staff loyalty simulation or test. Did they respond with all tools and methods as expected to a network event?
Another everyday secure, cleared US "training operation" was picked up by the US press as a "real" event.
Makes for good 'press' and gets clicks.

Turns out, high up in the stratosphere the winds are predictable and have just the patterns they need. They did simulations using real-world wind data and found it was quite feasible to navigate balloons effectively to maintain coverage using only prevailing winds.

Since 2012 they've been trialling in New Zealand, Brazil and other places, they've increased balloon flight times from 50 days to over 6 months (despite expert scepticism), and now they're close to ready to roll out a commercial service. Pretty sure they've done their research by now.

"Thunderbird 2 starts with a local root privilege exploit that can load a kernel module to give it access to raw memory." ref

Thunderbird and Thunderbolt are very different things.

"Thunderbird 2 starts with a local root privilege exploit that can load a kernel module to give it access to raw memory." ref

'DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE is a recently-disclosed privilege escalation vulnerability on OS X Yosemite'

Do you feel that creators of web applications should be obliged to make their source code available?

Yes, web applications should be free. You are a bad person if you are employed as a web application developer AND that the published web app doesn't adequately respect the users' freedom.

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a...

How is fighting this anything to do with the sex of anyone involved?

Trying to cast people as misogynistic in order to cast doubt on their position is pretty crappy. What did he say that had anything to do with misogyny? Did you dislike that he tried to respond to all the stories about women in tech that have been studied over and over and found that women don't go into tech because they don't like it rather than anyone hurting their feelings?

Do you work in tech? Do you work with women? Do you see them treated badly? If you can give examples, then there are things we can fight for, not just nebulously saying that women are discriminated against and that is why, without any proof.

Why aren't there more men in nursing? Why aren't there more women in construction?

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/a...

Bad ethics in game journalism hurts the gamers. This isn't the only example, just a big one that happened recently. Ethical outlets would have released poor reviews that belonged being released in order for the games to get fixed, or allow people to not preorder a game that barely runs on high end hardware.

Remember the old Sun slogan: The network is the computer.

I thought Sun's slogan was "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

Don't let these two guys ANYWHERE near your Jeep and they can't install their shit.

Sorry, but they don't need to

Learning styles is a harmful myth:

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/n...

Isn't this the same company whose CEO stuck his SSN up on the commercials challenging people to steal his identity? Well they did -- 13 times to be exact.

http://www.wired.com/2010/05/l...

For example, if science can observe an MRI image of brain activity, and correctly determine the gender 99% of the time, this is proof of a difference.

Ah yes, fMRI.

http://www.wired.com/2009/09/f...

A system with such wildly difficult statistics that a dead fish appears to register an emotional response.

Plowing is as simple as putting a plow on the front of a train that was already going to make its run. Also trains generally can still run at their normal speed in a normal amount of snow, versus road vehicles. As for switches, the important ones get set on fire (the article also talks about electric heating elements on other switches). The problem of freezing switches was solved economically in the 19th century.

If you knew anything about nuclear weapons you'd know that the Soviet nuclear weapons program achieved a number of accomplishments that the US never attained, and had it's own pool of talent fully capable of independent accomplishment as well spies in the US program that helped leverage US research for Soviet purposes. They were going to get what they wanted one way or another.

The Soviets and Communism was an extremely dangerous and well armed menace. Can you acknowledge that?

Aug. 20, 1953: Soviets Say, 'We've Got the H-Bomb, Too'
Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies

Pssshh! Is that all?

But building more roads doesn't make people drive more...

Actually, yes, it does.

All regulation isn't bad, and ignoring regulation (breaking the law) generally is bad. But some regulation, especially that brought on by corporate-government alliances, can be harmful. I'm torn.

Have you heard of keiretsu? In post World War II Japan they had an era of robber-barons much like that the US experienced, at the same time they were industrializing. Which makes me think some of what we're seeing in China is just what happens during and immediately after any industrial revolution, but that's a different topic.

Part of Japanese culture, the idea that a business owner is responsible for the welfare of the families of his employees, allowed massive business conglomerates to form and ally with the Japanese government without taking too much advantage of workers. In the US unions had the same balancing effect. But what I'm getting at is that in both countries there was significant regulatory capture and the building of infrastructure was funded by government-corporate alliances. New technologies: railroads, the telegraph, and port systems were erected for mutual benefit by companies that were allowed free reign.

I'm not going full fascist here, but it's undeniable there were some mutual benefits from these forms of cooperation, making up for some to all of the problems the same entities caused, depending on your political point of view. What does this have to do with Uber?

This amount of lobbying in the present corrupt US congressional state of existence is sure to lead to regulatory capture, which is sure to lead to something I'm going to call infrastructure.

Rapid ad-hoc commercialization of immediately available resources is an immensely powerful technology. It's not recognized yet, but Uber is at the front of a wave of change. Cars are just the beginning. You can rent driveways now, for a single day. Collaborative reputation-based commerce and ubiquitous internet access is allowing the closest thing that fits a consumer's need to be provided. It's oil for the capitalist machine.

How many people have a bicycle they haven't used for years? A lawn mower they use only every two weeks? Computer cables? Rent out your CPU to a Bitcoin mining group? Need to rent a generator for the weekend? Need a cup of sugar? People don't know their immediate neighbors anymore but they'll soon have a reputation on their mesh network.

As a tool of commerce this is every bit as powerful as the railroad was in its day. And it needs just as much support, recognition, and regulation. The government just doesn't have the tools yet to cope. But Uber's regulatory capture will create the framework. It's going to be corrupt, wasteful, and poorly written but that will change over time in the same way regulations written for railroads changed over time.

Government always gets worse, fnar fnar. No, it doesn't. Do you see Chinese chain gangs building railroads today? Do you see corporate-owned towns with single all-powerful individuals built to service trains? Do you see a single company wholly controlling access to one rail line? No. Government doesn't always get worse and over time as technologies mature and knowledge disseminates regulation of an infrastructure improves.

This doesn't need to be regulated.Yes it does. I believe in free enterprise. I really do. I've read enough history to see the power free association and free ownership brings. I believe anonymity should be a protected right. I believe in all-but-absolutely free speech. But I've also read enough history to see the harm unfettered capitalism brings. If the government doesn't regulate this new form of commerce networks will form into net-negative predatory entities. They'll lie, cheat, and steal from the naive, even from their own members. Just as a traditional company is forbidden from false advertising, cheating their customers, and breaking con

The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.

It's happened, remember the plane of Bolivia President....

http://cumulusnetworks.com/blo...
http://www.datacenterknowledge...
http://opennetlinux.org/
http://www.opencompute.org/
http://www.wired.com/2013/03/b...

Get with the times, the Big Iron Networking gear (like usead at Google and Facebook) are switches running Linux.

It was already a problem when they first replaced Unix with Windows:
http://archive.wired.com/scien...

Indeed

Bullshit repeated is no less bullshit. Did you think we'd miss that or are you now claiming it's accurate and the complete truth?

Doesn't happen that way, the protected monopoly does not allow you a choice.

Thankfully, it is not quite a monopoly — several corporations compete in my area, and contrary to constant whining on /., my area is not uniquely competitive. Granted, it is not a properly free market either, but the solution is to free it, not make it a full bona-fide monopoly the way public highways already are.

Only a public utility can provide that.

Bullshit. "Public utility" is a monopoly. And that it is government run only makes it worse. Your argument is exactly the sort of moronic but seductive thinking, that gave rise to AT&T's monopoly and the cable TV-monopolies after that. Those monopolies are — officially — no more, but the monsters they created are still with us today well-entrenched.

But, like I said, 100 years of failure mean nothing to you...

Here is how I would do it. First, load up several million thumb drives with movies and TV shows offering a view of life as it is lived today on the outside. Nothing American, just about how the other Koreans live in the free part of the country. The thumb drive is already established as an underground form of communication in NK, but up to now they are being smuggled a few at a time across the Chinese border.

Now drop them into North Korean cities from high-flying, undetectable B-2s. It won't take long for freedom to ring.
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/n...

Indeed

Why don't you check out Wired's title and get back to us with an update of your theory?

Changing the title as you suggest would mislead people. Bruce is intellectually honest enough to state other possibilities for what has happened despite what he believes. And to be clear, he doesn't really have any evidence for his belief. There are a number of reasons to believe that things didn't unfold as Bruce suggests.

You have once again made a post with a significant gap between reality and your views.